RT Journal T1 DOCUMENTATION OF ETHNOVETERINARY PRACTICES IN DISTRICT JHANG, PAKISTAN A1 N. Badar1. A1 Z. Iqbal A1 M. S. Sajid A1 H. M. Rizwan A1 A. Jabbar A1 W. Babar A1 M. N. Khan A1 A. Ahmed JF Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences JO JAPS SN 1018-7081 VO 27 IS 2 SP 398 OP 406 YR 2017 FD 2017/04/01 DO DOI N/A AB

The study was conducted to document the plants used in the traditional veterinary practices in Jhang district of Pakistan. Rapid and participatory rural appraisal techniques were used for collection of information i.e. the interviews and focused group discussions were carried with 253 traditional veterinary healers for a period of one year. From the study area, 46 plant species representing 31 families were documented for the treatment of different infectious and non-infectious ailments. The most frequently reported (≥ 22% respondents) plants included: Trachyspermum ammi (L.) Sprague, Capsicum annuum Linn, Vernonia anthelmintica L., Foeniculum vulgare Mill, and Allium cepa Linn. Of 46 plants, 33 were indigenous. Materials other than plants are also used as adjunctive therapy for different ailments. A wide variation in the dose, vehicle, part of plant, mode of preparation and administration/application was observed. The efficacy claims and indications for different plants were quite conflicting. The traditional veterinary healers in the study area used diverse plant species in the veterinary practices with varying claims about their efficacies. Controlled studies for the validation of the plant usage are underway in the Department of Parasitology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

K1 Ethno-veterinary; Phytotherapy; Medicinal plants; Documentation; Jhang; Pakistan PB Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum LK https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2017-JAPS-51